The coupling of waves between the piezoelectric generators, detectors, and propagating
media is challenging due to mismatch in the acoustic properties. The mismatch leads to the …

Polymer based MEMS and microfluidic devices have the advantages of mechanical
flexibility, lower fabrication cost and faster processing over silicon based ones. Also, many …

Piezoelectric composites are a class of functional materials consisting of piezoelectric active
materials and non-piezoelectric passive polymers, mechanically attached together to form …

This paper demonstrates that porous 'sandwich'structures can provide an effective route for
the design and optimisation of piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting applications …

Porous piezoelectric materials are of interest for applications such as low frequency
hydrophones. This is due to their high hydrostatic figures of merit and low sound velocity …

The connectivity of constituting phases plays an important role in the physical properties of
composites and porous materials, while it is still overlooked in many cases. In the present …

In this paper, two micro-electromechanics models, ie a rectangle model and a rectangle-
cylinder model, are proposed for predicting the elastic, piezoelectric and dielectric constants …

The elastic composite-based piezoelectric energy-harvesting technology is highly desired to
enable a wide range of device applications, including self-powered wearable electronics …

The dependence relation between the macroscopic effective property and the microstructure
of interpenetrating multiphase composites is investigated in this paper. The effective elastic …

Piezoelectric composites have emerged as a versatile platform with immense potential for
tailoring electro-mechanical properties to cater to a wide spectrum of applications. Central to …